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■ AN ARCHER IN THE CHEROKEE HILLS .

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By Frank M. Harshberger THE SHOOTING OF SHANDYGAFF GUINEA

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CONTENTS An Archer in the Cherokee Hills

By Maurice Thompson

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Manchu Archery

By Frank M. Harshberger

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The Shooting of the Shandygaff Guinea

By E. R. Teubner, Jr More About the Cross Section Design as Related to Efficiency

By Frank W. Peters Archery in Balboa Park From “The San Diego Sun.” An Inexpensive Archery Contest with Large Field of Competition

By Golden D. Long The Average Score Archery Tournament

By Phillip Rounsevelle Why Hunt Gophers?

By A. R. Anklam A Night m the Adirondaks ■Dy

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In The Cherokee Hills

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__ called sum; wood-duck—whichis ^d-did not ibs 1 have said- did Once upon a day—it was at duck, as 1I have u c on tne mer OUCK, m a small c, as. wlding-point, where spring is brazen but swam ma brook’s cheerful wate upon summer with a sudden ^mmous, deep, some kance. Inwardly, very temperament aromatic heat—I had a tent esl e hiss-brook. The angling was good for thing belonging to myblaze through r*o or three miles, up stream or down, exploded, sending a fierce light while about in the wood, practically blood and brain, makmg epithets; hut yaking untouched of axe or saw, e by which I chose my could not mend birds and squirrels offered every de­ the subtlest of these cc would have been light known to the shooter in a long the bow. It had the duck but taken of nature, the man who compensation for \ts evident willingness, has inside of ■_j_ himi a remnant of to wing; for its ev nOW ■. But sweet savagery.

---- 1 was somewhat even anxiety, to be when like ».■ insult unbearable. An unhappy. at last, frightened W 5 | Jetween An accident—the snapping short in It did Ely away, twinkling it le£t twain of my only weapon—had badly crippled my resources; for when toe up­ " mood to°rVthe congratulations per limb of my bow broke, just at full X«dnby an officious Uue. draw, as I was aiming .upon a fine male Probably most men and all summer duck, a gorgeous target in­ deed, there ended the better half of have enough common thus my sport. Moreover, when the piece prehend why, my sy q£ fisK_ sprang off with a keen crack, it gave abruptly ended, the j y lose ing-tackle fell stale^ What y^ ma a blow across the head not so much milder than a Hibernian police­ is ever toe very thi g P leaven man deals when a street corner fight other things depended my of delectability. Strl^ginltgnation, I is on. And there, quite alone, I stood, both bereft and belabored,—all on ac­ tent in melo-drama three young count of a machine-made bow with was further worried y hanging a flaw in its wood aggravated by two squirrels, toothsome t _’tree. Nayears’ lack of adequate seasoning. low on the bole of a big P q£ hurnor, ture appears to have a £ could There can be little to say, at the best, upon a matter of despair. An vast, profound Somewhat hysnot keep from laughing ent sugouting is rarely flexible or ductile. terically at what my pre dicam You have seven or fourteen days, no gested. There is some^g’icture of more, at the command of delight', those positively ludicrous m tn wild_ days are infinitely precious; you must an archer out shooting compress into them a multitudinous wood without a bow! rUS realization of all the pleasures accumu“Integer vitae scelerisqu arcU . lated during perhaps a whole year of anticipatory longing— and your bow Non eget Mauris jacu ’ Nec venenatis gravida sag breaks on the second morning of your I golden vacation, leaving you gaping at Fusee, pharetra. doubts : space twenty miles deep in a lonely As a master of archey, tQ noCk an i forest! whether Horace knew h adventure I held one piece of the faithless arrow or loose a ^ryigkine wood may with the wolf in the Sato^ dear m ■ weapon in my ‘ 'left ---- hand; the other ’. piece lay on <toe ground at my Bootseem to have that ■ toes. Meantime, toe gady penciled From the Atlantic

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the estimation of schoolmen—likely enough! — but the practical archer brings even to Latin verse a sense of that grin supposable to the counte­ nance of a fierce beast, quale porten­ tuni, the like not elsewhere to be found, when it concluded to run from an unarmed poet. But then Horace was singing of a girl by the name of Lalage—the wolf did right. To escape from a bard big with a love-song is the first law of nature.

Still it was in a doleful mood that I .j tent ------ and sought philosreached my pipe abetted by the seventh ophy in a l ~------- 1 . Know that my idyl of Theocritus, pipe was French brier-root, with but one stop, and that for tobacco, not bucolic wind, I like perhaps overwell to read about pastoral footings, yet as a concrete fact I prefer a frog to a flute; his noise is the better, and his flesh, when broiled upon a bed of hickory coals, is ambrosial. You will dress the game thus: skin his hinder legs and loins, whack them off, wash them in the brook; be quick and lay some bruised cress thereon, vigorously rubbing it for a minute; then wash again, salt, pepper, insert a clove; then to the coals for a hot, crisp broiling, while your palate trembles for joy and while a cardinal grosbeak sings in the haw bush yonder.

This particular idyl, the Thalysia, is t° Theocritus what the Ode to a Nightingale is to Keats,—evidently the song, he takes closest into favor. Readit hi a wild-wood gives just the light for safe criticism, as reading the e under a lamp in the library best al" Yhat Keats hnprisoned in his P.hras?ng- Where and when an. fectl^ g been described so per-

idyi of Cos? h™ feel the verv tO make one under one’s eaJ?/1*1116. c°untry road ding youthful6 serise ’ an ^un­ toward the distant f f hurrying on loaded orchards, belid^’ +iYhe,re amid Pemeter’s feast is SDr f°untain, true poets, he was aPR^d? Like all had hey-day genius rather

Play than work. There he gets sy=Pathy universal by touching the are ot truancy in us alh And what direct, unhindered visco e lets fall upon his simple fadedrama! The shepherd fellow they meet, he of the tawny goat-hide with a fine friendly smile on his face, stands forth alive, full-blooded, a trifle rank as befits one fresh from cheese­ making, but he is a poet with a mao3script in his pocket which he aches to read. Alas! poets are built so. Theo­ critus, too, is prepared in like ner for any chance of mouthing his la­ test song. It is not in the record, bur I suspect that both of his companionsEucritus and Amyntas, had a te* verses hidden somewhere about the-' clothes. And there in the highway at noontide, while even the the lizard dozed on the stone wall and the larks were hiding from the heat, they stxd and spouted their melodius Greek, doubtless perspiring freely, especially Lycidas, wrapped in his shaggy, hegoat hide! After that they parted: Theocritus and his two chums going on to the harvest feast, Lysidas disap­ pearing leftward down a road toward

Pyxa.

Now again the pebbles clinked. anhummed under their hurrying shoes, far behind them fell the tomb w Brasilas. The fair Amyntas showed the fairer for the flush of exercise, ar. all three together tumbled down when they at last reached the farm, stretch­ ing their tired young limbs on a fra* grant bed of leaves. Ah, but how de­ lightful the feel of such a couch un­ der the poplars and elms, beside bubbling well! Cicadas in sunburnt coats rasped away at their shrill tunes at their siamid the dusky dusky foliage toiiage overhead; over ea^._ m ■’ ♦ something the distant thorn thicket som —----- ----_ , finches and larks lilted softly; an^J^ rg0]den doves were at full cry, while go' insects whirled above the fshining hi’ Autumn; 'Ya^er- Summer was kissing •/•- riches. > 5,?easons were blending their ■ , and winy odoi^ng air with fruily aled up l°ar years’a^hUe S°me jugS’ed secl for the feast De,icioifs°ne’ Were °Penc- "

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He was an undergraduate, clean, 11 anything could have consoled doughty, pink-and-white, looking as ne in the matter of my broken bo , if just forth from the baths of a gym­ this reading was just it; ye\W ® nasium. Not in the least an archer, but I heard the gray squirrels parking untiring with bass-tackle, he eyed the the hickories over beyond the broo , stream knowingly while crossing it on I flung down Theocritus with a a log blown bridgewise over from bank there was no comfort for me. Out ot to bank long ago. He wore the very the brook’s prettiest dimple, right there smile of Lycidas. And the first thing before my tent, up leaped a twelvehe unpacked was a magnificent yew irvb bass, making a fine liquid note bow, sent me by a friend in London; as he broke the surface. What of itnext out came a sheaf of hunting-ar­ The one thing I wanted was my bow. rows ready for the string. That was, as Perhaps if I had broken my fly-rod it still is, a thing of beauty. Yonder Padre would have been reversed: the it now stands in a comer of my library bow might have appealed to me in vain bookshelves, with two others, also gifts while the squirrels scampered and from English archers. Yet I bought chattered. each of them at a startling price; for Partly by accident, yet more by the: be it known that a yew bow from fine instinct of a mountaineer who bore London, valued at eleven pounds ten me to the spot, I had camped in a most shillings, is held in the New York Cus­ charming place. From the tent’s door tom House pending the time in which a to the brook the distance was three draft for enormous duties must be sentjumps of a hare, so that sitting there, But the beautiful, the super-excellent I heard the lulling swash of small weapon is cheap at any price,—hand­ waves among polished stones,—a very made, unbreakable with just usage, good noise to sleep by, going through a unchangeable, growing springier, dream so fittingly, disturbing it (as a soft wind stirs drowsy summer foliage') sweeter of cast, more vaulable, every only to deepen or brighten it. All day, like a violin of Cremona.

Not long ago I read in a newspaper around the wood was old, stately, man’s very detailed description of how primeval, filled with tender gloom, — -------j ’ longbow, longbow, but with his nermeated with gratefully musty odors. mans first paragraph he Blue mountains notched the sky, to ma e a____ snoile spoiled his science, wherever a glimpse of distance could 1as a duffer always must. “Hickory,” be had, with iris tints on vagrant ■ he said, “hickory is the best wood for a bow.” You should see a true archer a true fleece-clouds above, while down the smile atv that; for a hickory rocky slopes masses of pine and jack­ _ hickory bow is a heavy, sluggish, worthless stick, about oak boscage alternated without any sluggish, worthless as resilent as putty. The same journ­ distinct lines of separation. A fur­ resilent as out putty. alist fetched once again that sear long or more beyond the brook one fetched out once of archery done fable of amazing feats of those indefinite mountain roads of amazing by our western feats savages. In fact, the meandered toward some obscure goal. i__ never was, even a Indian iswestern not, and Along it, at rare intervals, an ox-cart Indian is not,bowman, ; fairly good albeit at short •* •» clattered. I could hear the driver’s pet­ range he could hit a buffalo somewhere ulant voice. Each going-by interested between brisket and hip with his rudi­ me, for I was expecting Claude to join mentary arrows. And his bow!—it is nie, coming direct from home. i no more to be compared to the sym­ To make a short story long, he di metrical weapon turned out by a Lon­ arrive on the following morning, a don bowyer than a tom-tom is to a right cheerful apparition, trudging oV®r Spanish guitar. It is, indeed, an abom­ from the road, loaded like a PaC ination of both material and crafts­ juule, but singing gayly:—Should like to play my way manship. of my best May I tell the history Through the starry fields to As the slugging centre-rus

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bow, the dark Plaything, the one nearest the wall? newspaper wise man Pa^ed th.e like> five-foot bois il in comparison with a — ' " J darc (be called „ ------- d it hick­ ory) segment of a hogshead-loop, hight a bow in the hand of -nd of a half-naked

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matter of high satisfaction, like that cf poetry when we read Anacreon’s frag­ ments or Shelly’s odes; only there s an added physical romance in the of archery out in an ancient wood. you should hear the wind-like seas a yew-tree and the keen stroke of a blunt-headed billet hTih0 the ,London workshop, a arrow, you would have a sense of a oare; and noVTfl^LXXhe 'bwith glad new force in the air,—or an c'.d s^’sSCrkUno^ed “ With co2oT one called forth again.

In those hills of Cherokee Georgia laid it un to eye’ found Perfect, the wild flowers take what time pleases —dream of it'-lf0”’ f-AnC? f°r five Years> them for blooming.

Violets, larger K;"=t passed fr»f °ng years tbat billet p= than I have seen elsewhere, painrei ’ ’ ?-workIdm St‘age to sta§c, slowly hand sky-blue spaces on the slopes; yellow­ worked into a bow; then yet another year it root, purple geranium, and all the before I couldWtS tested and poiished sweet gush of spring’s veins made a could have it. From the strongly , flow of delicate colors beside lichenwrought horn nock-tips to the f^een plush handle frilled rocks, or decorated the buttres­ n. ls a comfort to midway between, sed roots of the trees. I remember look upon; you might well call it a ■, taking for target a tuft of wild pink, a sonnet in wood. A ickory bow, indeed" my arrow knocking the blooms into a With this"and an Indian dust of rosy tints that floated a moment, then went out like an ex­ nine out tinguished light. a gourd in On thinly wooded ridge-tops birds clmcheddeth!hbo now "T SpHled over; I are always few, but descending to­ ward watered lands you find them in , SXI Ck-de’s hands ; k °ut of greater- number, till in the thickets ment might whisk it S°me enchan-tfringing the brooks they sing distracicould absolutelv X r ?WaY before I invly in every avian key, fighting the ’t flexed from^iD^^V1' How evenly while, or rushing in pursuit of what to toeH?andle stiffened ri’t save where fill their crops withal; a bedlam cf the taught ct-,- d lt- 1 laid my ear phrases, a delirium of color and mo­ Dlana’s hunting ng+and thrunmied out tion. This is true more particularly where you cross the path of migration earlier in the spring, at a time when clouds of oscines are passing north­ ward toward their immemorial nest­ ing-places. evefharJP hair; s™°dy sPrinkle The sylvan archer, taking his too Claude^7 But that su’ Was a boy scant and infrequent outing, is more or tess a pot-hunter, partly from neces­ intercept the KSet OVer a K-nrod ar)d sity, somewhat by yielding to the -d water brook far to amid strong clutch of temptation. He must flO'l'Ved in desmteds and grasVe’+ Wbere to Pool. on thtorV winding!f tufts it not be criticised by tender-minded new ’b°w and hfrG^ay 1 nfust^"” P°°3 Persons who never felt the old sweet knots savage emotion churning foliage''“ io®s.

Dr<->rj • °od’ when a November frost, at sent aimlng Me quail and partridge, of uast» with over H?VkistknS' shaft of nipping wind Possessed 1 Pathizing stubble; rather let a symsportsman do the weighing °iypaUaud. reckoning of values. ’ deep in the wilder-

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duck, was the And there indeed jtream but dovm-s' ress where the word “trespass” is ob­ least close in by the bank,, nearer, at solete, when I am hungry for bird' 1 must get too far. feel reason:.ably flesh, let the bird beware, as the worm forty paces nearer, to l target so sismall <r.d butterfly must beware of the bird, -3 t,o sure of a fair shot a a should have es the wren must dodge the shrike. but how, seeing that 1 chance While yet the sun was low in the break cover and trust only to Nearer myself? east a dewy chill lingering in the objects for masking 1 -t now shrank, going mountain air, I reached the little yet to the ground I -from tree tc marshy flats bordering my brook two serpent fashion, wrigghn, weed-fringe, miles above the tent. There 1 ex­ sedge-tuft, from rock to duck, taking pected to surprise a wood-duck or two all the time gazmg_ at the moment in the puddles of water which were of its every swift advantage a little surrounded with rims of tall grass.

I had chosen of inattention, low — hanging Not a feather, not a wagging, brilliant with dogwood tree shoot from, head, not a webbed foot, however, was boughs, for my station to_ there,—only a small bittern, lank as —thin, scarcely albeit the foliage was I reached it, a toothpick, flew up before me; so I cover at 1all;, and when stole down-stream beyond the flats, how to get upon my feet the thing was and just in the edge of the wood up all unseen. flashed a wood-cock like a dull yellow­ ’ accomplished by slow Even this I ish blaze. I marked his flight to where great strain to nerves and stages, a g • • he went down; but I could not find -3 the hand of a clock muscles,—rising as him. He must have run far.

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Now moves, rigidly, imperceptit _r wing, sitThe banks of the stream rose higher the duck was preening a gay L the water not as I passed on into the forest of scat­ ting at a half-turn upon The distance tered oaks, where broomsedge in thin ten feet from the bank, slightly plungwisps dotted the stony ground. Here was fifty-five paces, a : l the dogwood meadow-larks, two or three pairs, ap­ ing shot through a rift m shot of great peared to be nesting, while aloft in the foliage. And it was a s - —y feath— beauty, although bloodless^ even treetops rang the woodpecker ham­ barely short, mers, like the rapping of carpenters erless. The arrow tell • r the shalheard far away. At a place on a bluff with a bright splash, Pier“P® 'srnod aslant in of the bank a thicket of haw bushes low water, so that it C-carmine hung over the water. Behind this 1 the clay bottom, its three of a vanes quivering like tk^_^.inspat one crept, foreseeing that from its cover 1 could have a long look down-stream dragonfly. But the due , stOod up rasping quack, its feathe over a straight, quiet reach of silver on which my duck might be disporting. separately; then it flew a mortar, a shimmering Sneaking upon game, as we archers the dusky trees. vm-der the call this crafty method of outwitting For an hour or more 1 -rlay the incident wary birds, is a cat’s art, in which dogwood resting, enjoying mocking-birds light stepping and the very poetry of just closed, while two an amoebean skulking are chief elements.

Such - ung • -3 m beyond the rock flutea joir pursuit is its own reward; for, hit or jubilant sketch, a cardinal gros miss, when at last the shot is sped, now and again vn■ bank a 1pair you have done a difficult thing in whistle. In the °PPosl^d tl their nestcoming within bow range of a bird of belted ki^£.^ey hove:>red at mbom to the business of seeing you first. hole, about which th y ^ce or twice, On hands and knees 1 slipped through ■j Yire for tervals, diving mto amu: A peewee flycatcher peep forth over the water, holding in a while. He had lit on ci­ a rny left hand the bow, in my right a the wood protruding from f-' in steel-pointed, red-feathered arrow which perch he dartea carefully selected.

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tion to take insects on the wing, always returning to the :same place. A meek, solemn little bird, with a sad fal­ setto voice; he probably killed fifty gnats while I watched him work. And what a monstei* those tiny things must have thought him! In his crop he held a whole army of them. He is one of my best companions, coming to me in the lonliest places in the woods, from the far north even to the Gulf coast is­ lands; always the same demure, feeble-looking dwarf, half stupid, yet strangely agile.

wood-duck coming head on into eyes; for there is something deikassly finished, so to speak, in the it offers, a trembling sketch in tints, driving along like a clGud--z^7 in a gale, or a gay fairy yacht a* zzmost speed, listing sharply to this sfi and that. For a moment or two see it apparently nearly level wri your eyes; but with its approach t seems to lift rapidly, showing its —der parts more and more, its sh~~— ing breast, its backward-pointing fee?its short tail Before you are r.ar.ar cr yourself, you staring duffer, the 5C"_rIt is worth while, I dare say, to be ding bird has whisked overhead.— idyllic one fortnight out of the whole gone like a shooting star. Ard yrn rushing, grinding, practical year. An forgot that you were out for gane hour like that under the dogwood-tree had a weapon, did you? gives to the ancient centre of one’s Not so with the sylvan archer rra— life a bath of primitive freshness, with ed from boyhood in the school cf s'—a nameless shock, dreamy, pervading, den chances. The unexpected reminiscent. How clear the water’s ways met halfway, bluff for bluffy*-— flow! And yonder arrow fixed in the all that promptness and imperv-:^--^ current, gently wagging, its feathers a nerve can do; otherwise the glowing red flower on a pale polished • —> in the " would be a forlorn tramp stem, communicates with the archer empty, his emess, his 1larder 1. lying here; tells him of innumerable bow-arm. tne sour. Up went my joys caught far and away by streams, row’s nock jumped to the stringmeadow-lands, willow thickets, man­ bow bent until me cool steel bent until the grove islands, and along the breezy point kissed kissed my my left coast-haunts of plover, the home of knuckle. Then in my head a ' the pelican, the lonely sand beaches mathematics, a nice intricate between the sea and the everglades— of highest calculus was so ' _4 the story beams as it unfolds. my aim just adequately ah^ But I must trudge on, even wade in apparently above the hu to get my arrow; for it is a good one How long would it be goingof its sort, having the “solid” flight, drawn missile, from the that best evidence of high art in the fletcher’s shop, the point where it ----------- Standing half knee­ duck’s line of flight? An ? d ' deep in the chill water, I had just how far would the duck fyplucked -UP the shaft, when far off difficulty! A wink of time m down-stream -i a glint caught my eye. It was such a c£ ray as a green flag leaf to solve it. darts when Correct habit is the e ^ wind and sun strike it together; but it great shooting. When Horace -- was in the air midway between the the water and the overhangthe master bowman of mo e ing boughs, ' .. Ha! the duck coming land, did his wonderful tar^ea]1O»fc£r back! Clautde, as he tice, it was always at one or went whipping along, had flushed it ---— «** of three accurately measure in a pool down below, as I so that he had but three point3 0 me a good f correctly surmised, doing turn re by­ one r to fix in his memory; rn°re°'^Jv ci ing accidents ofr those charm upon which dines sumptuously. targets were motionless. But t .

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By Frank M. Harshberger

A CHINESE BOW- G. THOMPSON FROM THE COLLECTION OF distant from ? name, five lis distinguish the same another. The people Old Town’ We wonder how far back in ^rian one <__by calling the one *< history the method or form of per O12P them the by other ‘New Town’’ or ‘Coming task was given consideration. e ’. and tut *" ~__ ’ and ‘Military' Town mercial Town * — which “We first entered the latter, general belief is that the Mongo tans 1 the latter, ‘ was built byentered the Emperor and Chinese customs were rather fixe Emperor Khang-Hi, I” built the by empire the 1Z. against its north­ to sdefend for many centuries before the time ° against erndefend enemies. town has a beautiful, the The empire Marco Polo, and probably were abou The town has a noble appearance, which the same but a hundred years ago. enemies. , which might might be ad­ In reading a book entitled Tia^ve s ppearance, mired in Europe itself. We refer, how­ Weofi—embattled ever, only to itsitself. circuit in Tartary,” by Evariste-Regis Hue, circuit of walls, madeto ofitsbrick; for inside, the who, as a missionary, traveled in Tar of brick; low houses, built in thefor Chinese style, C. tary, Thibet and China for approxi­ built inwith the the huge, lof­ are little in unison mately seven years (after having spen four years learning the language), -ound them. themty ramparts that surround “The interior of the town find a very interesting account dea m the town offers nothing remarkable but with archery in 1844 in a district o but its its regularity i and a large and beautiful tiful street, street, which Manchu Tartars, which district is a OA\ and runs through it beau fromt east west, A of east to to west. v. 250 miles west and a little north. nor Kiang-Kium, itorfrom military commandcomma Pekin. or imilitary mant, resides here with ten thousand .' with ten Quoting from Pere Hue: , here soldiers, who are drilled day; drilled every c “The Blue Town. Manchu a »» are so that tl_.

-* mav be regarded as Originality. Their Skill in Arc ® the town may “We had made a three Bays 3 Town of □— n town. a garrison the New Tartars; through the cultivated land? u_Hote “The soldiers of The soldiers Manchu Taumet when we entered ‘KouiKoukou-Khoton are (Blue Town), called in * towns of Hoa Tchen.’ There are

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but if you did not previously know the fact, you would scarcely suspect it from hearing them speak.

Among them is perhaps not a single man who understands the language of his own Yet for a competitor to be country. Already two ages have passed a good archer, it is essential that he since the Manchus made themselves should fire an arrow into every <ne masters of the vast empire of China, of the three figures. ‘To know how to shoot an arrow,’ writes a Marchj and you would say that during these author, ‘is the first and most i=two centuries they have have been un­ portant knowledge for a Tartar to ac­ ceasingly working out their own an­ quire. Through success therein «w—* nihilation. Their manners, their lang­ an easy matter, success is of rare uage, their very country—all has be­ occurrence. come Chinese. It may now be affirmed How many there are who practice that Manchu nationality has become day and night! How many are there irremediably annihilated. who sleep with the bow in their arms.'

“Yet, amid the general transforma­ and yet how few are there who hare tion, there are still a few tribes, such rendered themselves famous! How few as the Si-Po and the Solon, which are there whose names are proclaimed faithfully retain the Manchu type. Up at the matches! Keep your frame to the present day their territories have straight and firm; avoid viscious pas­ have been invaded neither by the tures; let your shoulders be immov­ Chinese nor by cultivation; they con­ able. Fire every arrow into its mark, tinue to dwell in tents and furnish and you may be satisfied with year soldiers to the imperial armies. skill.’ ” “The Manchus are excellent archers, It would be interesting to know the and among them the tribe Solon are date of the Manchu author who is particularly eminent in this respect. quoted by Pere Huo, and also when At all the military stations, trials of this technique in shooting the bow and ard skill with the bow take place on cer­ arrow was first appreciated in a world tain periodical occasions, in presence slowly, where customs changed very of the mandarins and of the assembled Was this technique developed by the people. Three straw men, of the size Manchus or had they borrowed it from HdU L4.lv.jr _________ of life, are placed in a straight line, at other tribes, possibly hundreds of years from twenty to thirty paces’ distance from one another; the archer is on a earlier?

In Pere Hue’s rough rough sketches. sketches, all line with them, about fifteen feet from bows, when braced, seem —n to come to the first figure, his bow bent and his the chin when one end is resting on finger on the string. The signal bethe ground by a standing figure; when ing given, he puts his horse the ground by —> to the galunbraced and hanging in the natives nai lop and discharges his arrow at the .minent first figure; without checking his tents (always in a proi horse speed he the bows are represented1 as having oe’ss speea he takes takes ra second arrow half o' *** from 1hisJ quiver, places it in the bow, approximately the outer J “ • and discharges it against the second arm reflexed; this reflexed !»■? of an figure, and so with the thir<J. aU being approximately 150 degrees 0I_*" arc of a circle, the diameter of which while the horse is dashing at full speed along the line of_ figures, so that the is approximately twelve to fourteen inches. Some braced bows are sketched rider has to keep himself ------- - firm in the saddle while he imaneuvers -----as straight for about a foot each side with the promptitude necessary to avoid the ° fhe geographic center while others getting beyond his mark, From the handleGtCfled aS lending through the first figure to the second the s archer has barely time to draw his — arrows. arrow, fix, and discharge it, so that when 06 ?3?^ver> containing ten —j he (Continued on page 12)

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DECEMBER, 1932.

Shandygaff Guinea

The Shooting Of The E R. Teubner, Jr.

Reported by E - gratified to have present Mr. William

The outdoor shooting season was |H. Palmer, Jr., who has recently un­ dergone another very serious operation. practically brought to a close Sunday, Bill came back in the shooting game November 13th in the Philadelphia this year with a bang, after having vicinity with the shooting of the Shandygaff Guinea on the grounds of been out for several years in very poor health. He won the Philadelphia Open Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Teubner, Jr., at Shoot, and placed second in the State Earsham, Montgomery County, Penn.

Championship with American Round This invitational shoot has come to be around 600 and over. Then on Sep­ a yearly event, and in spite of very tember 20th, he was suddenly taken inclement weather, the occasion was a down again, with his old trouble, and most enjoyable one. had to go through another ordeal with Each year at the end of the shooting season, this shoot is held, and a gol­ the surgeons. He came through, how­ den English Guinea is awarded to the ever, with flying colors, and is daily winner. This year the Guinea was in­ regaining his health and vigor. Al­ serted in a beautiful Applewood Cup though Bill didn’t attempt to draw a embellished in gold and polychrome bow, he was there to spur on and help made by one of the archers. The day dispose of the steak sandwiches and was sunless, and a raw inclement cross Shandygaff brew. wind blew practically all of the day,, The Guinea was won by none other which accounts for the comparatively than our old friend, Dr. R. P. Elmer, low scores, and for the non-partici­ who, in spite of the cold and bad pation of such hearty archers as Dr. shooting conditions, held up like the Hollister, from Scranton, and Tillie veteran he is against some very keen Johnson, Philadelphia and State Chamcompetition. p-on, although they helped with the An interesting feature of the shoot arrangements, and kept the outdoor was the Fontaine End Par award in the events going for the comfort of the archer Second American. That _ ' _good ~ Participants. Every one was very much

12 YE SYLVAN ARCH2 and champion trap-shooter, Johnny Fontaine, put up a very handsome the present group are carrying ca ti* glass and silver compote to be awarded continuity of these early enihusssu. to the highest end par score in the In fact, they number in their member­ Second American. End Par is deter­ ship some of the original members over eighty years of age, who, back in the mined by the average score for each early eighty’s often shot in this same end at the various distances made on the First American. On the Second meadow. The club is named after the famous Indian Chief Tamenend, who is American, the archer shoots against buried within a few miles of the spot, his end par, and is given a zero if he at Playwisky, Bucks County. He equals his average end, and plus one if ground where Shandygaff stands was he exceeds it, and a minus one if he part of that acreage sold by this fa­ falls below his average. For instance, mous old Chief to William Penn. The a total score at 60 yards of 125 gives old barn built some years after the that archer an end par of 25 at 60 most ancient part of the house is smi yards. A total score of 200 at 40 yards a landmark of antiquity, and at preset: gives him an end par at 40 yards of 40. houses the indoor range of the Tamer­ Against these averages or par scores, end Archers, where all through the he must shoot on his Second American. winter a merry group gather on week­ This gives archers of all degrees of ends, and are provided facilities for a skill an equal chance, and is a very 30 yard Olympic Range. interesting form of novelty shoot. It The distance shot on the indoor was won, much to every one’s grati­ range is slightly under 30 yards, and fication, by Reme Hourdequin, the the target used is what is known ss good old veteran from Avondale, Penn. the Olympic Target with a four-inch The scores follow: Dr.R.P. Elmer, Wayne, Pa. 563-580-1143 center of gold, and five concentric twePaul Wilcox, Scranton,Pa. 558-560-1118 inch rings, the values being gold-9-i5-3-2-1. One more ring, a two-indi Claude Johnson, Phila. A. 541-577-1118 Paul Stanley, Phila. A. A. 519-542-1061 ring is introduced, which is nor on the standard American and English E. R.Teubner, Jr.,Phila.A. 481-466- 947 Jean McKinney, Phila. A. 453-464- 917 target.

Fred Kinnear, Phila. A. A. 357-354- 711 Ninety-six arrows are shot at the Reme Bordequin, one distance, and the scores compare Avondale, Pa 309-389- 698 with the average score of an American Philip Cranwell, Baltimore 345-333- 678 Round, except that it is very much Mabel Kinnear, Phila. A. 307-344-651 more difficult to make as high a score H D. McKinney, Phila. A. 314-307- 621 on the Olympic range.

John Fontaine, Phila. A. 302-285- 587 Amy archers passing through Phila­ Eliz’th Elmer, Wayne, Pa. 275-277- 552 Alice Teubner, Phila. A. 293-239- 532 delphia will always be made welcome at Shandygaff, the home of the Tamen­ ary Elmer, Wayne, Pa... 251-258- 509 end Archers, and should communicate onald Kinnear, Phila. A. 257-230Mr^ J. P. CranweU, with either Mr. Teubner or Mf257-239- 496 Baltimore, Md Claude Johnson, Secretary of the The field on v Philadelphia Archery Association.

79-209- 288 was shot is whatwhich the tournament tone old farm, t is left of a very hisa t— having been ’ MANCHU ARCHERY portions of the house of the the c.i "07Sett^S . ’ built by one (Continued from page 10) °ne of the of Montgomery County origiTeubner S somtin^ grounds fo; ’s place in (carried by a military mandarin armed — s°i?e. ei8hteen in' >r : a group of ,s the only with bow bow and and arrows, a heavy archers number, who orsaniz^e Tamenend A sabre and probably a short knife carconsanization was founded cr.d Archers. on his belt), seems to hold all o* _jd in 1881, This these arrows spread fan-shape, so that and arrows spread fan-shape, e feathers —iers win will not be disarranged.

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DECEMBER, 1932,

More About Cross Section Design

As Related To Efficiency

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By F. W. Peters arc--causes many bows to develop many of them to follow I would like to recount in detail a :chrysaling, and all all them to and i— of the string unduly, thereby impairing unduly, thereby i~ few particulars of my own experience their cast velocity and general ef­ derived from designing, building, and . velocity <,—2 ~ ■ ficiency. If the limb were wider and testing by actual field test at the hands If the limb were proportionately thinner, this compres­ cf competent archers, some number of sion versus tension antagonism would bows of various designs and of various ■*> tension antagonism be to a large degree eliminated, and woods. My primary object for going large degree bow and its efdeterioration of the bow : ’' into these experiments was to achieve, rapidly impaired, if possible, some appreciable prog­ ficiency not nearly so 1. . ’ design, all rectress over the existing standards of In bow structure design, be angular square corners should sb performance. ; crowned. avoided.

The back should be These existing standards, as em­ iximately bodied in the conventional type of long The belly should have appro: back, and bow, had very decided limitations and the width face as the (for beauty shortcomings. For instance, a lack crowned just slightly more of velocity, a too evident tendency to <effect). The sides or edges should likeThis design will fellow the string, chrysal, and to wilt 1 wise be crowned.

Th:? of tension, down in weight and cast when shot on place the greatest strain also compression,, where where the a warm day. Also a pronounced hard­ the body of the limb is best able carry and en­ ening of the required weight of pull on able to to carry dure it, and will eliminate the danger the string approaching near full draw. of slivers starting at the_.sharp, t’' sauare square.-, — These disadvantages are particularly due to the cross section design. Too edmet's. ~~ matter of kick, or much depth of limb in porportion to Coming back to this found that practhe width thereof, which causes un­ rebound jar, I have in use have this due antagonism between the tension tically all bows nowi a more or less of the back and the compression of objectional to archers will ------ habit Many the belly of the limb when bent to pronounced degree, as to this applying vehemently full draw. This also is responsible for protest vehemently as particular pet bow. Neverthe rapid increase of weight pull near to their their particular i, should such pet archers shoot, for full draw. This hardness at full draw theless,ce, an American or York round can be relieved by scraping the bow a bow that does not kick, and instance, so as to work more near the handle, liately thereafter shoot their pet with a but, to relieve it all, the result will immediately bow by way of reverse comparison, — 7 be that this type bow will kick on the the result - of-1-’reverse he be aa surprising would be rebound when shot. (Of this, more later. revelation. have gotten so used to it, This rapid increase of weight near Archers the kick is exceedingly profull drew also causes, in case of slight that unless is being ignored, but it variation in draw when shooting, a nounced .it a tiring effect on archers very marked variation in arrow velcertainly has a prolonged practice or .... shooting ecity, causing poor elevation accuracy. tournaments.

Any material reduction when ’ It also unduly encumbers a desira e of this objectional feature should have ibjectional smooth release. The arc belly face , a decided effect on better scores.

-->ression, decided on ’ - effectenhance velocity, and ing subjected to severe compr In order to enhance 'the f°rce necessary weight due to the length of limb--t- severely thereby reducing the i._ of the compression being most ridge of the applied to the extreme ri

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14 SYLVAN ABCHZ3 of bow needed for the shorte (for the longer ranges the r ranges can be c overcome or ]practically etoocity is doubly valuable) reflexing can extra velinated by narrow section ■ ;____ of iz bcw «' be resorted to in the flatter------limb de­ the plate. My experiments were ahned the flatter limb My experiments were zhz&i sign of bow. T — at trying to eliminate objectional teaI ami surprised to find that many archers ; tures, "" and —2 if jpossible incorporate as that reflexed bows are of the opinion many desirable ones into a new 6ekick, whereas my own experince sign of bow. ror instance, greater For instance, grea'-^ proves the direct opposite. In fact velocity for a given the greater the degree given weight weight of of pc3 f-— of reflex, the at full draw; eliminating of rebcruud the action of the bow ,when smoother shot. jar; softer and evener pull approaching This Glacier full draw; greater precision at lateral matter or of Kick, kick, or rebound jar, is purely of proper propor­ 1_’ a a matter matter of accuracy by eliminating arrow defec­ tionate distribution of load and weight tion.

In short, a bow that will give on of load and of material throughout the limbs from much greater ease of control for the handle to to set up energy delivered, thus enabling archers to tip. tip. It It is is difficult difficult t_ a hard and fast r”1- for r_ this, ” to enjoy prolonged shooting without ' ; rule since each suffering the usual fatigue, sore finger and every individual stick of good bow timber has its tips, or a hang-over from a three-day own individual tournament in the form of an aehir.g characteristics. bow arm or shoulder.

Reflexing of bows has oeen prachas been Such a bow would be perceptibly ticed ■‘ during * the past ages.

Many ages. narrower, but deeper through the various ideas have been employed. I handle section. From the handle sec­ have x-_ . _* <' developed rseveral, with gratifytion the limbs would widen out with ing results of _— very marked increased a graceful, curved edge, to about cnevelocity and other desirable features. third of the length and then gradually The most satisfactory design to date is curve narrower until the tip is reached, a general reflex from tip to tip, with finishing to about a round cross sec­ very little reflex through the handle tion at the nock of 3-8 in. or 5-16 in. section, and gradually gradually increasing increasing to­ as the case may require for different wards and up up to to the the limb limb tips. tips. The materials and weights of bow. degree of r* ” reflex that each individual I hope that the readers and editor of stick of wood ' ’ will endure is a matter Ye Sylvan Archer will overlook er­ predeterminationi <of‘ the Z_ maker, basrors in grammar and phraseology ed on good judgment gained from lay no claim to being a linguist, but experience. when it comes to bows that is a horse One point almost overlooked is the of another color. My slogan in a matter of ; arrow deflection sidewise ery, as in other things, is “Progress > off the side> of the bow. This really all Means.” And the end is not yet

Archery In Balboa Park Robin Hood, Little John and the rest Archery in the park was first cultiof the merry band which roved ated by Charles A. Lower, a retired through Sherwood Forest, trod no such ™ec«anic, in 1924. Subsequently, the green carpet as the archers in Balboa f n Diego Archery Club, which he Park are given to cavort upon. On eirrhf ed’ ^mlt UP a membership of the other hand, of course, there are no fat young bucks or Sheriff of Not­ hoL6611' The late Joseph Jessop was tingham’s men for the Balboa Park cant^ary president, Creed Thie was archers to let fly at. secretary. and Lina Zellweger, Will Scarlett is still at large, how­ ever, and in San Diego, too, That’s his club, m McNatt, best shot in the name, and he is a descendant of the arrows ?s many of the bows and Will Scarlett in Robin Hood’s band.

—Ternplet^r, 916 rest of the archerseck, The San Diego Sun-

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;iv* Archery Archery Contest An Inexpensive Field Of Competition

With Large By~ Golden D. Long

Archery Club.) club was forty-three stamps, and paper amounting to amo1— the Fresno The Fresno Archery Club has just interest and envelopes and. enthusiasm finished a mail archery contest with $1.70. The members has been wonder---- ewspaper publicity has help­ the archery clubs of California and among our ... L_. issued to Colorado. The challenge was ful. Theclub n< and caused many inquiries but neither state membership. The men shot ed our cl.

Arizona and Arkansas, in regard to "i Round and the women a turned in its results.

As a means of promoting interest and Eight archers to the team. an American Columbia.

Z , compiled by the secretary, Becoming better acquainted with very The results, little expense, I know of nothing equal are as follows: £_11 Total Score to a mail archery contest. The cost to (Secretary Fresno

Location Clubs Oakland ........

Greenwood Archers San Leandro Leandro Archers Los Angeles Grifieth Municipal .... ...

South Gate South Gate Archers Modesto ........

Modesto Archers Fresno Fresno (Challenger) ....

Sacramento Sacramento Archers L. A. Griffeth Municipal 2nd Team Colorado Denver Archers ....

Santa Barbara Edison Archers ..... Pasadena Pasadena Club Palo Alto Palo Alto Archers Colorado Denver 2nd Team L. A. Griffeth Munic. 3rd team San Francisco Ahwahne Archers

Men 2234 2124 2192 2355 2433 2073 2081 1774 1933 2419 2287 1885 1588 1587 1541

1758 1766 1658 1110 838 1133 827 1058 829

3992 3890 3850 3465 3271 3206 2908 2832 2762 2419 2287 1885 1588 1587 1541

Individual High Scores South Gate 572 !

Walter Brouse .... Pasadena 566 Club Points Contestant ood' 567 Miss Hanchett ............ Greenwc Edison Club 646 Clint Douglas Mr. Brown .................. ........ Denver 562 Les Heisel ....... Modesto I642 G. G. Needham .......... Edison 557 Chester Seay .......... Edison 622 F. X. Goulet .............. .... Pasadena 556 L. A Hodgert ........ Modesto 612 Mr. McMillian San Leandro 544 605 Ray Ward ...... Modesto G. W. Lewis.............. San Leandro 543 E. L. Mould South. Gate 600 R. R. Litchfield ..... Palo Alto 540 Al Mulinex ......... .... South Gate 596 J. E. Weaver .. Fresno 539 ¥>'m. McMillian .... .............. Edison 594 533 B. J. Miller San Leandro 524 ..... Greenwood 588 ' Mr. Stoneman J. M. Kloss ............

Griffeth ......... Pasadena 587 Mr. Mould Mr. Caskey ...

Fresno 517 B. H. Gunn ..... South Gate 587 C. J. Reid .... Fresno. 515 .............. Griffeth 580 Mr. Parker G. D. Long .. Griffeth 510 ........... Pasadena 578 Mr. Seay Mr. Raffaelli ....... .... San Leandro 504 Palo Alto 578 G. W. Thompson M. F. Frandy ......

Greenwood 503 .............. Griffeth 578 Mr. Macquairie ... on next page) Mr. Hammer (Continued .......... Greenwood 576 Mr. Thompson 574 ..

Modesto J. Freeman

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The A verage Score Archery Tournament Tr

By Phillip ■fo holdii • Rounsevelle holding inter-school tournaments archery there is score for the school. The school harsf that — ~ the the instructor always; a danger the highest average score would be ce will majority of the class in a: slight the winner. This would serve as an _ vwcindividuals ciass in an with endeavor to perfect ----- r a few an eye lent index of the ability to the irszr^with in an to having them take a place .a take a tor as well as the general schorl ix— event. So far as I know no contests terest in the sport I know have ever ever been been conducted upon a total Second place could be awarded sa class score, giving the score, giving the average score the school having the highest avaas for the entire archery group of the entire archery of attendance at practice over a grver school, yet yet it seem to me that it would would r period of weeks. Putting this, and aLr this basis would be the most logical one the winning score, on a percentage .J would be the r to indicate the standing of any part­ rather than numerical basis would px of icular school in standing r—1— both large and small schools cu archery, The procedure 1 equal footing. Third place could b= be exceedingly simple.. As in would awarded to the school having the Lzzthe in cne present intercol­ legiate match, match, a r week could be allotted est percentage of students out f— to the shooting shooting and all archers in the archery. This would be a compar^-school could have the opportunity of of the number of archers with th= competing during the week in any stip­ total registration in the school. I: ulated standard round. Those who de­ seems to me that holding a faulted, except through sickness, would on this basis would be far more ]-ystill count as individual contestants, to the small institution which natur*-.although their score of course would be has a much smaller number of sn: dents and consequently has few^r c£ zero. The total scores would be added and then divided by the number of those gifted individuals who always archery students to give the average stand at the head of every sport — which they participate. .Walter Steven:IS Fresno 502 B. Lowell ........................ pal0 Ajjo 373 W. A. Goebel .

Denver 483 £ Mr. Scott Scott.................. De,v„ a.......... Griffeth 482 Mr. Hughes tvt" *Jychardson Ahwahne 364 ......... Griffeth 479 A. C. Neal ..

Gnffeth 3JS ........... Fresno 466 Mr. Archer Mr. Clavena _.................... GriHeth S35 ........ Griffeth 453 Mr. Righter ..

Kari Sm‘th ..................... rresno — ........ Griffeth 451 C. E. Love ■nr Ladies-Cohunbia Round .........

Denver 447 499 C. E. Baltzley sJenkins ..... Fresno Denver 441 C. M. Thomas 4S2 riJSStt Greenwood Fresno 438 C. A. Fulton .. ^Chett ..................... Griffeth 4S? ....... Denver 438 Mr. Frost .... ^^man —- San Leandro 477 .....

Griffeth 434 Mr<; rr Justin Jacob: —• u cicobs 472 — Mrs.’ PerSne larke "" .. Ahwahne 423 L. L. Gunn ....

47* Mrs e................. Greenwood ..... Denver 403 Chas. Jenkins M?s M F e p D’?°^......... Fresno 437 Fresno 396 Mr. Williams ..

Mrs B rr * ran dy —- San Leandro .... Griffeth 396 A. W. Riley Palo Alto ««•' C a dwSl Um ......... South Gate R. H. Ogilvie ..

395 Mrs. 11 ................ Greenwood 407 Ahwahne 381 W. E. Haller .... .... Denver 380 L. H. Atkinson .............. Oriff^ 403 Ahwahne 373 Greenwood 399 ^nued on next page)

17 DECEMBER, 1932.

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Why Hunt Gophers • ” Anklam made g°"

By A. R- Anklam along, They and with and wife were ~— ofc picnicin affair I often wonder what many city tar­ the shade and ing a sort <_ get bowmen think when they read the rested i. i the gophers. lunch they : -----” . interesting hunting stories in your read while I whistled—up : too fast for a heard they were t -agazine. We, in the city of Chicago, are plenty fast I had have no big game except big gophers Well, they fast. I eradicated bow. and large field mice, and we must enough, but not ? oftoo five in a few hours travel into the country to see them. an old pasture cf attempt.

I had practiced However, the gravel hills around our on my first small match boxes out in dtv are a great home for these ro­ shooting at 1 at home to get the idea dents, and any old meadow will have the back to yard aim, because drawing to plenty of game if you look at it that of how t- ; .' in target shooting with the chin as in target way. u... _.l • than the eye on a point of aim I don’t think that the bow and ar­ didnother ’t feel right. If I used row is only to be thought of as a thrill the gopher < i of stalk and draw my old Indian style guess oi in the manner of killing. Lord knows 'but TI it was too much guess-work, we are not yet practicing conservation liked it better. Occasionally now I use with guns. I can’t see much conserva­ in target a sight, same as some use tion shooting at bob whites any way practice, and by setting the — sight —S to ' » a you look at it. About twenty years of approach ago I went duck hunting. The party uniform judged distance c_ I keep my eye on the gopher the gopher until he I stayed with shot two hundred ducks is mine, or I think he is going to be in about an hour and a half. It was mine. The arrows may be blunts, or­ the legal limit. I could have killed dinary target heads, or broadheads. some by throwing a club into the They all do business quickly and right, flocks. Or perhaps made it more ab­ shots I ever saw original, you say, by using a boom­ One of the best “ Norwegian stuerang like any Australian bushman. made was by a young : who sifter letting Those were preserve hand-fed ducks, dent friend of mine down without a shot and according to law we are still per­ the gopher go usual come-up-andmitted to sort of tame and slaughter waited for then the pinned the gopher birds if yOU can fceep someone else peek. Hej ti­ the opening of o" your property. through the head in a woodchuck I shot Hunting is all right, but it’s time the i burrow. a broadhead while ‘ : he was doing to think of hunting deer and some withsilly a peek trick, but he was a bigother game with a bow and arrow or the l not at all. On the other hand, if ger mark.

— there is no going down J ou must be at it there are plenty of In hole all cases again whenL hit, as there may good-for-nothing things to shoot, as: the be 1with a gun. Gophers Gophers and wood­ gophers, woodchucks, crows, porcuchucks stay where they are when hit.

Ptnes, wolves, wildcats, and Chicago recomIn conclusion, may I humbly ' ----- ■ gangsters. with bow and mend gopher hunting AU last summer I hunted gophers arrow for those who still must hunt at least twice a week. My children During the fall months we will chal­ lenge the eastern and northern states, Miss Shoosham 399 and during the winter the southern Mrs. Seay ..............................

380 and western states. In this way we Mrs. G. W. Lewis .... Sa? gj every expect to raise our scores and keep the It is our aim to.chR interest of the members up to standard. archery club in the Um a shoot, ing from four to six states

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A Night In Th e ^dirondaks C'mS‘ B. Lacy lng, while anticipating Previous evens . everal active davsJh plans {^r following night u Y ahead, that on the on “por£eT Th? take a chance . Wa had decided th

^ere full of porc® Jn°°ds’Jhey told us found was true buf tn t 17115 We later when one felt’ to locate them just something other other thaUrSe tO shoot at another thing. n a target was thing.

About *x Tuesday cevening jumped in sr*"' J’ueiiai "■X ear, droJe ab^i we a mile caj a fara,lel »ith the lake

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ear,u and t„.„ in the sanH . wen, Went int ° a- big Mountain. Here we^f. baS- ®- ° —f Snowy ends and lefm e plan ted • ----- 1 our bait, and o an° secure!?,! °f Slab — o bacon, tied ---- 1 near­ sand bank had abi east, side by side, as near the <!•”*•? ^d other hotel as a dump for pile as possible, feeling our way refuse and was noted o have produced r through the blackness. The noise con­ Porcupines galore at any hour of-J the tinued. Our quarry was making away.’ night.

—- day or For the first time I spoke aloud, a quiet request for Os to flash his light -sbuming^n^h W?h bri]Hant ofUteheSlarS Sure enough there went our “Porky Adirondak nigh?fthlaCk VeIvet making for a cutout in the sandbari. moon), , -.we left i} "here was no The light confused him, he half turned, a three-cell flasMight°d^e’ armed with my revolver in George’s hands cracked Colt SInall bore reZ Ge°rge with my twice with no effect. The animal start­ 55 --•-pound steel and me "^h ed away again, paused a second time broadheads.

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But Circumstances were similar, °ne shaft was driven through a smaller clack?’ Th W° tin animal ®n came and deep into the ground, the We, advanced of the broadhead finally turrung °n a stone.

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Editor Ye Sylvan Archer not be extended to the sports, The In regard to this propaganda for a more rules and regulations there are, standard technique, I have been around the less real sport. a bit in the last twenty-two years and Doubtless over - regulation is the have seen some good archers shoot,— reason so many archers do not com­ also some of them not so good. No pete in organized target matches, but doubt there a few hard and fast rules prefer to use the bow and arrow in that may be applied to the technique hunting, where you can mostly make of shooting, but, as in other sports, your own rules,—rather “catch-aseach individual is more or less a law caatch-can.” That is, you catch the unto himself. All you can do is to the game, if the game doesn’t catch start him in the right direction and you; which seems quite a fair and give him a push, (or a kick. Use your logical proposition. discrimination).

Our sport is pretty well hedged in There ought to be a rule against by old traditions, many of them ab­ shooting an an arrow arrow inock foremost! For solutely without any foundation. If I have seen beginners earnestly fum­ seen beginners in addition to that we add a repressive bling in attempts ‘ ~ atmosphere, and a set of rules to limit bowstring, with to fit the pile on tne an instructor right the conduct of a new, or would-be at hand. archer, we are simply putting up more The main idea is to hit the mark; barriers against archery becoming and if in mui u in a contest, to hit it more an popular. And that is just what some the other fellows. Some ultra-con­ ultra-< selfish, narrow-minded people desire. servatives insist that Some you shoul us Instead, let us make it easy for a be­ a six-foot bow' of yewyou and should footed, ar­ yew and footed ginner to get started; and when prog­ rows 28 inches long, whether ..o , ..laeuiei* you can ress is shown, the mysteries of tech­ pull that length or not. length or not. Also that nique may be slowly disclosed, as the artificial points < * —J of aim, bow candidate is ready to absorb them. all such modern < — sights, and ~ contraptions, should be‘ foutlawed. Maybe I have heard several opinions on they ‘ are right how to make archery more popular. “d th. lie world is wrong, One is to make the tackle very much I conce watched one of cheaper; another is to make the tackle cbampi,ions” one day at that our “past easier to use, so the beginner can make beautiful ra*ge in th. me Arroyo Seco at Pasadenafair scores right at the start. And yet Though he was making a fine score, e a third says to improve the efficiency apparently had no anchor spot for is of tackle regardless of expense, so that drawing hand, as half the time e good archers can make still higher didn’t even touch his jaw. Technique scores. Maybe all of them are right. didn’t bother his score.

I’d say the main thing is to get more In many rifle matches, sights con people out shooting regularly; the taining glass are not allowed. Now spirit of competition will help the spo _ aTe , ? ot allowed. some of our weak-bowed archers are using glass sights on theirarcherS bows or amazingly.

Now here is our fellow-townsman, 100-yard shooting. Should they e shooting.

Professor Anklam, who wants bows considered standard equipment, or classified by speed of cast. He is n disbarred. 1 standard too. He wants to send an arro Now _ . have more a rule against point fast that a gopher can’t dodge it. You °f aim we .„axKers than six inc es markers than six inches holdum, Me shootum: howzat. above the ground.more I don ’t knowwhy, Ibe ground. I don’t know why; This recent sport, called ard>«7 I can see no use for such a rul® see no use for such a rule and golf, is making quite “' similar ones. It seems to me tha ones.

It of seems <■<■> *t-shouia —*• x1 larity in some cities. Larg y bureaucracy idea regulation cause it has been pushed by com

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ThIS is in archer a chance to use it gives the regard io the distances shot at shooting similar to that a style of _l a 48 inch target, whether ar_'_. hunting — rchery is supposed to be •£— used under conditions. only, or skill I have strength and the pec-^" lary pseen four sets of by different means to buy the best tscklerules, used Let’s tclza take each separate. >ns, that have contradictory organization conditions,, and some Skill—ff archery is supposed tc clauses _j that give the big he skill only, is it not just as hard ~ great advantage -men a over the make a good score at 60, 50 zzd 4. weaker ones, And yet other rules and' M ing J 16 ‘"AlawG « i premium con luck. A seem to put a and 20 yards using a 24 inch tame’ standard set of rules, that: are fair to (every ----- „ player, . u Person has n°‘ physge should be adopted. But it should ... ° handle a heavy enough bow to shxr be left to not some half-informed comaccurately at the longer distances, wry. mercial body y to formulate these . , en » should he not be entitled to rules.

Very truly, nis choice at shooting at the sbcrer distances at a tournament? Fancr h_— G. L. Nichols much more interest could be built r?

Editor Ye Sylvan Archer: owing to this innovation alone, withcn I presume that when taking into consideration that there are in. middle life takes up ar a person .. . — places in any town that one czz he immediately sees things new thatsport rppsL. shoot even 60 yards, let alone 1W ----- appeaiand 80! queer to him--why one feature is al­ lowed and another not allowed.

No Strength—Should this be a big and anomer not allowed, doubt in most especially in a factor? For myself, I would not care, most cases, <- , as I can use a far heavier bow and a game like archew ■■■’hfzh has been archery, which handed down for r much longer arrow than nine-tenths cf centuries under one rule or another, that the archers. I am thinking of fully there are good half of the archers I have seen that are reasons in most bound rules are cases why rather iron not physically strong enough or large On the other enough to handle a bow that will sheet hand, it is not in force. C. wholly out of —■ i'. the question that the a fairly flat trajectory at 60 yarcs. sport has got into> a rut.

Now I have heard that such bows are I do not claim this of not claim this archery, for made, but I have not seen one. if it seems —T that I y ' got interested in it archery is to be a game of strength, just about the time that why not make the distance 200 yards. provements in tackle1 1 some big imxn were forthcom 150 and 100? They introduced the for­ ing, but there are two things that have­ ’ ward pass into football to give the little puzzled me. One One is, is, the use of a fellow a break. Why not give the little marker — what appears to me a appears t fellow a break in archery? Surely this rediculous thing, thing, inasmuch inasmuch that you is the day when the undersized archer aim at this to hit another object. Pon­ ought to get a break in business and der on it awhile and possibly I will take this up at a later date. Then I’ll sports alike, if he ever did. try and explain why, if there was any Pecuniary Means—This has always question between the two, that a peep­ been -1 an important item in any sportsight is far more fair as a sporting and it is one that has been overlookedproposition than a marker. Just at Is it fair for a rpoor man with cheap present, however, there is something tackle to have to compete agains^t a I have thought of a good many times, ^ich man with near perfect tacklebut have consulted others on it before ^ome may say that I am seeking & I dared broach the subject. Besides, ahr> a + ^at lust cannot be brought it", fits into this season of the year < can q being an economic AmeriSociahst myself, I always stick to an

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thoughts are in no way selfish, ones, ideal, whether practical or n°tbut I am thinking of others who have don’t mean to make the rich man been less fortunate in one way or cheap tackle, but I think arrangements another.

No one should cast the above should be made in the tournaments ideas aside solely because it would not whereby the less financially able arch­ just suit them.

The best way for the er should be furnished the best he most people is the way it should be for might select, if he honestly could not such a classic as archery. afford to buy. I dare say that a dozen Colin J. Cameron, tackle manufacturers in the country Amesbury, Mass. would be glad to fit out a potential champion with high grade equipment, The Greenwood Archers of Oakland, and probably give it to him afterwards if he made a good showing. Would I California, put in a display of archery practice what I preach?” Well you tackle, pictures, etc., at the Pacific just bet I would, and I am doing it Slope Dairy Show. The Recreations De­ right along in the smaller tournaments. partment had the booth for the week, Another way would be, in the event having different activities featured, that a club had a potential champion, such as golf, tennis, boating, ice to equip him with the best and f inance hockey, and the one and only sport. the trip. If this were done, there might We had a fine show on our evening, have to be an elimination tournament and had a good time out of it. Some­ of several hundred, instead of per­ one asked what archery had to do with haps a hundred competing. Of course, a cow show. The snappy comeback was it is certain that many who shoot so “Well, haven’t you ever heard of an well in practice may fall down in ac­ archer shooting the bull?” tual competition, but nevertheless there are some real great archers who ap­ AN ARCHER IN THE proximate if not beat the championship CHEROKEE HILLS scores who do not go into tournaments (Continued from page 8) for some reason or other. tances, situations, objects; and then I don’t want any one to think it is contemplate a flying duck. The won­ my intention to break into archery, der of wing-shooting with the bow af­ join N. A. A. and begin to try and upset rules all inside of two years, but fects me curiously now, after years of performance sufficiently pleasant, as 1 don t think it any harm to mention when the first bird fell to my shot in how some things strike a beginner. . erhaPs I may be all wrong on these the flush of vigorous boyhood. It * >,eaS’ any comments are made on seems sort of guesswork, touched with em (and I will surely appreciate both science and romance, reduced to comments whether they agree with me the mechanical accuracy of habit; yet °r not) I wish they would bear in I always know, at the moment the ar­ row quits the string, whether my shot fbat they should look at the will hit or miss. ng broadmindedly, as I have tried The shot of which I am now telling do, for as to “Skill,” I gave up is one of the rubricated and gold-let­ ' offing short distances two years ago tered records of my archery, an event ^2 kke the longer distance best; longe serving as a perfect standard of ref­ trength,” I am six feet one inch, am six feet erence.

I let go the arrow cleanly, so 'vei8ht 200 pounds., can play four , can that it sped like a bee, and it met the hours of t---- ' • in the morning and duck’s breastbone at the fork, stopped shoot all tennis the — s afternoon without apthe flight in a puff of down and feath­ Parently roverdoing myself; and up to ers, just as Claude came in sight 1116 present 1 turn-over in business, I around the stream’s distant turn. He could have and do own now as good saw it all. Before the duck could fall tackle as straight down to the water, off went Therefore, anybody in the country, it may seen that my the young man’s cap with a wild flour­

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We two whole fortnight. Yet I shot a met a little farther down, where we deal, shot till my arms ached; the compared bag and creel. He had three woods will remember me by the small bass against my male wood-duck, Of them all row-scars on bole and bough high together we could make a dinner low down, where the blunt piles r passed in the best r" not to be suroff the bark with whacks that ra=? ing what other goodrestaurant, things we considhad at clear and far. the tent. Hunger smacks its It was during this outing that lips in the wilderness, winks sensuous made a careful study of the carcxea greedy eye at anything cookable. grosbeak. There were many in — Ah, but the savor of a spitted bird must be great haw thickets, where they had resa when it can follow one five hundred full of young, one brood taking wtag miles and hold fast for almost ten before I broke up camp. The nest a years! “Sed alba non sine ____ Coo; — ” the this bird is seldom built high; uraaE? white, sweet the place chosen for it is a crotch cr sweet wine wine of of freedom freedom must have done its part, while all around a point where several boughs ccithe wood-thrushes, those pipers of the verge, well hidden by foliage. Ann golden reed, filled the air’s most lone­ what fighters the little red cocks art some deeps with their phrases.

They pounce with fury upon erer;other bird coming near the nest, strik­ Culture’s sips are grateful the ing with wings and beak, sec’~r~j taste; one feels how the world toneeds the presence of refinement more and raucously meantime. The care—a. > cry, or song, is a loud, defiant, bccamore; but freedom, even savage liber­ ty, must be preserved as a thoft-fellow trous phrase whistled in major keywho will pull the boat of life lustily filling a whole wood with cheerfulnt^It sounds to me like “wheep-ear; enough when culture sickens or shirks.

I am conscious of my own need; this wheep-ear, wheep-ear, wheep! in a shrill yet mellow fife-tone. Ike greedy glance I turn upon the few un­ shorn nooks of mountain, fen-land, red feathers of the cock are dazzd-?shore waste, forest, is not mere affec­ but the little hen shows only a bngs tation; the thing I long for is freshness, of dull carmine on her sober graj-the smell of plumage. of a a lonely wood at twilight, the break of day with dew and birds, I got into a row with a pair of carc-of day with where nature has not been lopped and nals one morning, the whole proceed­ repaired beyond It is ing on their part showing a shame-esr beyond recognition. medicine, it is cheer, recreation, a re­ ingratitude. Hearing some blue jays is cheer, rturn to the authentic standard, this making a great noise in a wild plum ! authentic draught of what my distant ancestors thicket not far from the tent, I too i my till distant drank, from morning night, all the up my bow and went to see what was till days of their morning lives. the matter for such a hubbub. A mo And now that of jays had surrounded a little haw the mere shooti: my yew had come, ing-desire which I soon discovered in the middle idly down; f burned rap­ for the best °f a plum-tree, where he sat quite archery is to s part of sylvan to stray and still, evidently afraid. He saw me how­ hand, to and fro loiter, bow in '"O cand imagination for ever, and made a dash to break the round about, with ■ company, line of his enemies, but he could not the birds at their spying upon the p S W their blooming go far, they worried him so. I ran for­ __ orPSeapn£> at while exercise or; fruxting ward under cover of some low foliage. seeding, brings and countenance, a glow Presently reaching a point from which To Play as to limb plays,—there f could shoot at short range, and is true a child no person anear r?creation, with to curl .b"1 down- n°w the a hp at chanced^th V1 t aWay' But U you, fhat I shot from very close

DECEMBER, 1932. beside a cardinal’s nest; indeed, my right elbow jostled it at the recoil of the bow. Then came trouble. Both redbirds assaulted me, pouncing at me with vicious beak snappings, almost striking me in the face. They seemed not to account it anything that I had slain the marauder who would have made a meal upon one of them or their tender nestlings. Such is avian gratitude.

After a certain period spent in the woods, sometimes three days, some­ times three weeks, the romance of it cloys, falls stale. I am as eager to get back to my desk as I was to get away from it. I have eaten enough ambro­ sia; give me once more the solid diet of workaday life. But I bring back with me from the lonely places some-

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As I stepped in the hare bolted out, ran down into the ravine and up the other side to a point opposite. It was a tangled place to shoot from; but I dared not move for fear of losing the main chance. Let drive, the briers tearing the back of my bow-hand.

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